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One of 189 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mountain Brook Office Park Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- Address. 2900 Cahaba Rd.,1-17 Office Park Cir., 100-510 Office Park Dr., Mountain Brook, 35223
- When was it listed? November 2022
- Category. district
- Census division. Birmingham
- National Register reference number. 100008399 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
29 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Brook Office Park Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 730 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160929-6 |
| 13 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 1302 MORGAN RD, AL |
| 2 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 350 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | CR 45 ( N OF 27), AL |
| 15 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20200615-3 |
| 30 May 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NORMAN DRIVE, AL |
| 27 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NER-20120427-002 |
| 22 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Brook Office Park Historic District: 10 past producers, 3 plants, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham Plant | Vermiculite | Past Producer | ||
| Birmingham Red Ore Dist. | Iron | Producer | ||
| Green Spring Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Hammond Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Hammond, Dago, Hendona, and Valleyview Mines | Iron | Past Producer | Hematite | |
| Helen Bess Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Kewanaw Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Republic Steel/ Birmingham, Ala. | Iron | Plant | ||
| So. Electric Steel/Birmingham, Ala. | Iron | Plant | ||
| Spaulding Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1886 |
Storms near this property
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Brook, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Brook | 1 hurt | Several trees uprooted along Cliff Road in the city limits of Birmingham. One large tree fell on a home, producing significant damage to the home and minor injuries to one occupant. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Brook | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Brook | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Brook | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down on Altamont Road in Birmingham and on South View Drive in Vestavia Hills. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Brook | - | Power lines were downed near the intersection of Old Leeds Rd and Cherokee Rd. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Mountain Brook | - | Dime to quarter size hail in the city of Mountain Brook. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Brook | - | One tree was uprooted and fell onto two cars in Mountain Brook. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Brook | - | Several trees and power lines were reported down across the city of Mountain Brook. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Mountain Brook | - | Nickel size hail was reported near Brookwood Mall. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Mountain Brook | - | Dime size hail was observed near Fire Station #2 on Overton Road. |
| February 2011 | Hail | Mountain Brook | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mountain Brook Estates Building | 0.5 miles | 2003 |
| Hollywood Historic District | 0.5 miles | 2002 | |
 | Bernice L. Wright Lustron House | 0.9 miles | 2000 |
 | John D. and Katherine Gleissner Lustron House | 0.9 miles | 2000 |
| Rosedale Park Historic District | 1.1 miles | 2004 | |
| Redmont Garden Apartments | 1.2 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008399 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 189 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.